What the world needs now from the environmental movement
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Lecture at Leiden University, 2013
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- 1. 1 /NaidooKumi What the World Needs Now from the Environmental Movement Kumi Naidoo, Greenpeace International /KumiNaidoo
- 2. 2 Key global challenges • Democratic deficit • Global governance • Social exclusion • Role of civil society • War on terror (curtailment of international civic mobility) • Climate & environmental crisis
- 3. 3 A perfect storm: convergence of multiple crises Source: NASA Climate change Biodiversity loss Deforestation Ocean Acidification Overfishing Pesticide use …with deep social, environmental and economic injustice
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- 5. 5 40 Years of Inspiring Action (Video)
- 6. 6 Antonio Gramsci (1981-1937) “I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
- 7. 7 Intensify the Energy Revolution Campaign
- 10. 10 Case study: Mattel (Barbie) (Video)
- 11. 11 Case study: Nestlé (Kit Kat) (Video)
- 13. 13 Save the Arctic (or what’s left of it)
- 15. 15 What needs to change? • Change the narrative – Environmentalism in the past vs. environmentalism now and in the future – Profile of the environmental movement: privilege vs. necessity
- 16. 16 What needs to change? • Give up territorial space (re-frame issues more broadly) • Better work in alliances (labour unions, religious organizations, women’s movement, indigenous groups) • Broaden constituency and embrace unusual suspects
- 17. 17 What the world needs from the environmental movement NOW • Realistic optimism • Principle courage (civil disobedience) • Approach based on intersectionality • Humanizing the environment • Broaden constituency • Become smarter in our engagement of the business sector • Speak truth to power irrespective of how uncomfortable and without exaggeration • Have the courage to not simply think out of the box, but be willing to throw away the box altogether • Align ecology, economy and equity • Consolidation of the movement • No more talking, act now!
- 18. 18 You don’ have to join us to join us (Video)
- 19. 19 Thank you! Please stay in touch: /NaidooKumi/KumiNaidoo
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- … with deep social, environmental and economic injustice
- Other quotes: All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals. The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).
- Greenpeace is campaigning for a future based on clean renewable energy to avoid the worst scenarios of climate change as well as nuclear disasters. At present, the world is on course to go over a 2-degree increase, risking irreversible and catastrophic climate change. We can still avoid this by: stopping expansion of coal use; stopping the development of marginal sources of oil, such as the tar sands and Arctic oil; getting governments to agree to gradually phase out fossil fuels in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions; investing in expanding renewable energy and in energy efficiency, which our Energy [R]evolution scenario shows can get the world off fossil fuels and nuclear power.
- Billons of people around the world rely on our oceans for food and livelihood: decades of industrial overfishing is putting these lives and our planet’s future at risk. A global network of fully-protected marine reserves, and responsible fishing in remaining areas can help restore our oceans to health and end the urgent crisis facing the waters covering 70% of our planet. Greenpeace shares the same goal as the fishing industries: fish and fishing jobs in the future and we are ready to work with communities, producers, brands, retailers and processors to help achieve our common vision. We are uniquely positioned to be the fishing/seafood industries’ closest ally. Europe currently has a unique opportunity to get oceans management right- and create a EU-wide policy that works for Europeans, not just narrow fishing interests. The once-in-a-decade reform process of Europe’s Commmon Fisheries Policy must be used to champion a reduction in overfishing, science-based policies, an end to the plunder of distant oceans of fish and more marine reserves.
- We campaign for forest protection because, without healthy, thriving forests, planet Earth cannot sustain life. As much as eighty per cent of the world's forests have been degraded or destroyed. Greenpeace is campaigning for zero deforestation by 2020 to protect what is left of these extraordinary ecosystems. Indonesia's rainforests and carbon-rich peatlands are being destroyed at a rate of more than a million hectares a year, making Indonesia the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet, endangering species including Sumatran tigers and orang-utans, and undermining the future for millions of Indonesians who depend on the forests for their food, shelter and livelihoods. The government of Indonesia identified the pulp and paper sector and the palm oil sector as the main drivers of this deforestation. If corporations have the ability to destroy the world's forests, they also have the power to help save them. We investigate, expose and confront environmental abuse by corporations around the world, and ask our supporters to take action for the planet. As a result, many multinational corporations have changed their practices - but there is still a long way to go to protect the world's forests. The Amazon is the planet's largest remaining rainforest, teeming with more wildlife than anywhere else on Earth. But this majestic rainforest is caught between the twin destructive forces of deforestation and climate change. the Amazon stores 80 to 120 billion tonnes of carbon, helping to stabilise the planet's climate.Greenpeace is campaigning for an end to deforestation in the Amazon by 2015 and globally by 2020. Zero Deforestation Law.
- Our vision is for agriculture is one that protects, sustains and restores the diversity of life on earth, respecting ecological limits. It is a vision of sustainable equity and food sovereignty in which safe and healthy food is grown to meet fundamental human needs, and where control over food and farming rests with local communities, rather than transnational corporations. We define this vision Ecological Farming. We believe the answer to current and future issues is a global transformation from industrial farming towards ecological farming. The shift will contribute to meeting a multitude of crucial challenges facing the world today: abolishing poverty, eliminating hunger; improving health; conserving soils, seeds and water and tackling climate change. Ecological agriculture supports food sovereignty by providing bottom-up farmer-led solutions to local food production, thus undermining corporate profit-driven solutions that entail selling farmers expensive external inputs, like hybrid/GE seeds and agrochemicals. Ecological farming practices are ideally suited for poor and smallholder farmers, as they require minimal or no external inputs, use locally and naturally available materials to produce high-quality products, and encourage a whole systemic approach to farming that is more diverse and resistant to stress.
- We all depend on the health of the Arctic. But companies and governments want to drill for oil in the melting waters. Burning oil caused the melting in the first place. We need to protect the Arctic waters from oil drilling and industrial fishing. Join us and demand world leaders declare a global sanctuary around the North Pole.
- The Detox campaign is calling upon global fashion brands to commit to eliminate all uses of hazardous chemicals from their supply chain and products. Our investigations have revealed links between major clothing brands and textile manufactures in China and Mexico who have been found to be releasing hazardous chemicals into local water supplies. Hazardous chemicals have also been found in the clothing items of major international fashion brands, and these chemicals can break down into the environment to form toxic and hormone-disrupting chemicals. Greenpeace is also calling upon governments to tighten and better enforce legislation to eliminate the use of hazardous chemicals across of industries and to stop industry using our public waterways as private sewers. Water is essential to life, and we cannot afford to poison the little fresh water that we have with hazardous chemicals that are harmful to both the environment and the health and livelihoods of people living near the sources of the pollution.